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Ryumei Fujik and Yukiko Sato Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Ryumei Fujik and Yukiko Sato of F.a.d.s acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation by Ryumei Fujik and Yukiko Sato of F.a.d.s has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation
This house has been renovated mainly on the first floor because 18 years the completion. The renovation required that the existing kitchen area, consisting of the kitchen, breakfast corner, and food storage, be changed to a space that can be used for various purposes. In order to respond to this demand, the food storage and corridors were eliminated, making the entire space one room wide, and the sink was changed from a wall-mounted type to an island type, making it a more space centered on the kitchen unit. It has been reborn as a calm and cozy room because it is covered with a wooden finish.
About Ryumei Fujik and Yukiko Sato
Ryumei (Takaaki) Fujiki completed his MA and the Doctor of Engineering at the University of Tokyo under Prof. Hiroshi Hara and Prof. Akira Fujii. He founded F.A.D.S in 1991. He has been teaching as a professor at the department of architecture of Kogakuin University (KOU::ARC),Tokyo since 2001. He has a great interest in nature especially the advanced system of nature. Yukiko Sato joined F.A.D.S as a design partner since 2000. She graduated from Japan Women's University. Now, She is teaching at Japan Women's University as a Lecturer. F.A.D.S has made numerous practical works in Japan.
About F.a.d.s
F.A.D.S has been founded in 1991 by Ryumei Fujiki as an architectural design office to design house, commercial building, shop interior, health facility, and cultural complex etc. F.A.D.S has made numerous practical works in Japan.
Award Record
With this recognition, Ryumei Fujik and Yukiko Sato of F.a.d.s is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2011 - 2012 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/92851
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/92851
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!92851
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/115055
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.fads-design.jp
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation
- Function
- Residence Renovation
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Gray, Rosy Brown, Sienna and Tan
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ryumei Fujik and Yukiko Sato
- Country
- Japan
- Brand
- F.a.d.s
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #92851
Credits
- Team
- Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato
- Image Credits
- Photographer Hiroshi Ueda; Photographer Takeshi Taira
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The renovation required that the existing kitchen area, consisting of the kitchen, breakfast corner, and food storage, be changed to a space that can be used for various purposes, not just at breakfast. In order to respond to this demand, the food storage and corridors were eliminated, making the entire space one room wide, and the sink was changed from a wall-mounted type to an island type, making it a more space centered on the kitchen unit. It has been reborn as a calm and cozy family room.
- Inspiration
- This house has been renovated mainly on the first floor because 18 years the completion. It is made by folding a plate, and a rectangular box made of concrete is inserted into it to support the whole. The outer surface of the box is finished with concrete cast in cedar board formwork, leaving the texture of wood even though it is concrete. In order to further strengthen the design concept at the completion, the entire inside of the box, that is, the kitchen area is covered with a wooden finish.
- Research
- Response to a Heavy Snowfall: The principal focus of the original project (Continuous Plate House 1.0) was how we should design in response to a heavy snowfall. Since there are some examples of research that snow cannot lie easily due to the influence of a wind as for a flat roof if there is even no parapet, rather, we designed by adopting such a flat roof since 1999.
- Challenge
- How Break a Box-form Architecture: In the original project (Continuous Plate House 1.0), it began to think from a box form at first. Although the effective idea was not able to be found out easily, as a result of repeating whether there is any method of breaking that somehow, and trial and error, composition as if the floor, the wall, and the roof were connected continuously and bent and built one plate was obtained.
- Realization and Technology
- The Kitchen area is covered with spruce CLT panels (made in Austria).
- Project Duration and Location
- This house was first built in March 2001, and the renovation was completed in August 2019 in Fukui-city, Fukui Pref. in Japan.
- Specifications
- The size of the Kitchen area is width:3.2m by hight:2.4m by depth:7m.
- Keywords
- Residence Renovation, Kitchen, spruce CLT panel, Continuous Plate
